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Wednesday, November 16th, 2022
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Caltech Library Workshop - Introduction to QGIS

North Mudd 201 (Geology Library)
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMX Lunch Seminar

Annenberg 213
VarMiON: A variationally mimetic operator network
Deep Ray, Postdoctoral Researcher, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering University of Southern California,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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International Education Week: Mentoring STEM Pathways in Puerto Rico

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Native American Heritage Month 2022 STEMinar with Alex "Panda" Armendariz

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Lab Safety Orientation Training

Online Event
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar - Bristol Myers Squibb Lectures

Gates Annex B122
Dr. Rebecca Green, Senior Principal Scientist, Bristol Myers Squibb,
M. Christina White, Professor, Biomedical and Translational Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium

Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium
Galaxies Lacking Dark Matter
Jorge Moreno Soto, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Pomona College,
4:00pm – 5:30pm
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Caltech Library Workshop - Introduction to QGIS (Zoom Session)

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar

South Mudd 365
Multiscale biota-sediment-flow interactions and their impacts on erosion, water quality, and climate
Judy Yang, Minnesota Twin Cities University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Finance Seminar

Baxter Lecture Hall
The complexity of economic decisions: theory and evidence
Xavier Gabaix, Pershing Square Professor of Economics and Finance, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Materials Science Research Lecture

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Exotic Magnetoresistive Materials
Despina Louca, Maxine S. and Jesse W. Beams Professor of Physics, University of Virginia,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Women's Affinity Space

Center for Student Services, 2nd Floor, Common Area
5:00pm – 6:00pm
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APACT Leadership Series: Jeremy Kim

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
6:30pm – 8:30pm
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▶︎ Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
Thursday, November 17th, 2022
8:00am – Ongoing
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Registration for Winter Term

10:30am – 12:00pm
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Campus History & Architectural Tour

Athenaeum
11:00am – 1:00pm
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Course Design Workshop for Postdocs

11:00am – 12:00pm
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar

Gates-Thomas 135
Toward a Model-Based Qualification Paradigm for Metal Additive Manufacturing
Albert To, William Kepler Whiteford Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, University of Pittsburgh,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Center for Molecular and Cellular Medicine Seminar

Crellin 151
"Towards the Development of an Autophagy-Targeting Chimera"
William Rosencrans, Chou Group,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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International Education Week: SURFing in Iceland

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Monthly Caregivers' Meeting

Online Event
  • Internal Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

West Bridge B157 (CMP Conference Room)
"Many-Body Dynamical Localization"
Victor Galitski, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Maryland,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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LIGO Seminar

West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
  • Public Event
1:30pm – 3:00pm
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Caltech Staff Development Series: Holiday Survival Kit

Online Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Biochemistry Seminar

Gates Annex B122
What is the smallest protein that can be identified in a cell without labels?
Christopher Russo, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB),
4:00pm – 9:00pm
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Fall Social and Mentorship Workshop

  • Internal Event
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar

Prospering backyards: Community science for soil lead remediation in Los Angeles
Maru Garcia, Associate Research Scientist, Mineral Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Physics Colloquium

Online and In-Person Event
Laser cooling and trapping radioactive atoms and molecules
Andrew Jayich, UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar

Baxter B125
Finance and Climate Resilience: Evidence from the 1950s Drought
Rodney Ramcharan, Professor of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, USC,
4:00pm – 6:00pm
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The Lee F. Browne Dining Hall Naming Celebration

Lee F. Browne Dining Hall (formerly the Harry Chandler Dining Hall)
  • Public Event
7:00pm – 8:00pm
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The Secret Life of Park Rangers: Adventures in Mount Rainier National Park by Tina Seeger

Beckman Institute Auditorium
Friday, November 18th, 2022
11:00am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar

Online and In-Person Event
Random Matrix Spectroscopy and Quantum Gravity
Clifford Johnson, University of Southern California,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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International Education Week: Women, Life, Freedom: Students on the Frontline of Iran's Uprisings

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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IQIM Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Seminar

East Bridge 114
Three diamond quantum processors, Two entangled links, One multi-node quantum network
Sophie Hermans, AWS Quantum Postdoctoral Scholar, Faraon Group,
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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Mathematical Physiology Learning Seminar

Linde Hall 183
3:00pm – 4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium

Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Roadmapping the Future of Technology: In Space and on Earth
Olivier de Weck, Professor, Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geometry and Topology Seminar

Online Event
Does the Jones polynomial of a knot detect the unknot? A novel approach via braid group representations and class numbers of number fields
Amitesh Datta, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University,
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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▶︎ Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
Saturday, November 19th, 2022
8:00pm – 10:00pm
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Glee & Chamber Singers Concert

Ramo Auditorium
Sunday, November 20th, 2022
3:00pm – 4:30pm
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Glee & Chamber Singers Concert

Ramo Auditorium
Monday, November 21st, 2022
10:45am – 12:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online Event
Cosmological Bootstrap in Slow Motion
Sadra Jazayeri, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris,
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CMS-EE Partners Program Tech Talk

Annenberg 105
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Online and In-Person Event
Investigating Local Environments of Fast Radio Bursts
Alexandra Mannings, University of California Santa Cruz,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
History of the Solar Nebula from Meteorite Paleomagnetism
Benjamin Weiss, Professor of Planetary Sciences, Chair of the Program in Planetary Sciences, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Quantum Matter Seminar

East Bridge 114
Unifying Quantum Spin Liquids and Preparing Quantum Spin Lakes
Ruben Verresen, Quantum Condensed Matter, Harvard University,
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2022
10:30am – 12:00pm
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Laser Safety Training

Online Event
1:00pm – 2:00pm
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PhD Thesis Defense

Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Zhuoran Qiao, Graduate Student, Chemistry, Caltech,
2:00pm – 3:00pm
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X-Ray Diffraction Training

Online Event
3:00pm – 5:00pm
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Caltech Grad & Postdoc Thanksgiving Celebrations 2022: Social Activities

Beckman Auditorium
3:30pm – 4:30pm
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Informal NB & CNS Seminar | Tansel Baran Yasar - Tuesday, November 22, 2022 - 3:30 pm

Chen 100
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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DIX Planetary Science Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Exploring the Occurrence Rate of Small Short-Period Planets Orbiting A-type Stars
Steven Giacalone, Graduate Student, Department of Astronomy, UC Berkeley,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Mathematics Colloquium

Linde Hall 310
Recent progress on metric SYZ conjecture
Yang Li, Department of Mathematics, MIT,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar

Baxter Lecture Hall
The geometry of consumer preference aggregation
Fedor Sandomirskiy, Linde Institute Postdoctoral Instructor in Economics, Caltech,
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2022
1:30pm – 2:30pm
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Personal Emergency Preparedness Training

Online Event
6:30pm – 8:30pm
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▶︎ Caltech Tai Chi Club

Hameetman Center 220 - Multipurpose Room
Thursday, November 24th, 2022
8:00am – 11/25 5:00pm
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Thanksgiving (Institute holiday)

9:00am – 11/25 4:00pm
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Credit Union Closure

Multiple locations - See event detail for more information
Monday, November 28th, 2022
12:00pm – 12:50pm
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Caltech Chamber Music Lunch Concert

Dabney Hall, Lounge
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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CPET Seminar

Online Event
12:00pm – 1:00pm
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RSI Research Seminar - CANCELLED

Jorgensen 109
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3:00pm – 4:00pm
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Analysis Seminar

Linde Hall 187
Introduction to the dimer model, III
Marianna Russkikh, Department of Mathematics, Caltech,
3:45pm – 4:45pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar

Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Chemical Manipulation of Iron-Sulfur Clusters
Daniel L. M. Suess, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk

Online and In-Person Event
Opening the new frontier of Gravitational Wave Paleontology
Floor Broekgaarden, Harvard University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar

Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Origin of life-essential volatiles in the rocky bodies of the inner Solar System
Damanveer S. Grewal, Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Geochemistry, Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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H.B. Keller Colloquium

Annenberg 105
From Non-Local Variational Problems to Non-Local Conservation Laws
Qiang Du, Fu Foundation Professor of Applied Mathematics, Department of Applied Physics & Applied Mathematics, Columbia University,
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar

Online Event
On detecting equatorial symmetry breaking with LISA
Kwinten Fransen, UC Santa Barbara,